📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Apelsin (Orange)
- 🌍 Origin: A very popular commercial Russian heirloom. The name translates literally to “Orange” (the citrus fruit), perfectly describing its appearance. Distributed by major Russian seed companies like SeDeK, Aelita, and Poisk.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Generally considered indeterminate (or semi-determinate depending on conditions), mid-season. Growth height varies from 1 m (3 ft) outdoors to 2 m (6.5 ft) in a greenhouse. Excellent for container growing as well!
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Perfectly round, bright orange fruits that look exactly like medium-sized oranges. Weights typically range from 200-400 g (7-14 oz).
- 💪 Standout Features: Incredibly resilient. It boasts outstanding heat tolerance (sets fruit easily in high summer heat) and is virtually immune to cracking, even under severe moisture fluctuations. Also has an impressively long shelf life for an heirloom.
- 👅 Flavor: Sweet, meaty, and juicy, with just the right amount of tanginess to balance it out.
A determinate, mid-season variety. Mine grew in the greenhouse to about 1.2 m (4 ft). The bush is vigorous. I’m planning to grow it outdoors in open ground next year. The fruits are round, smooth, orange-yellow, and meaty. The size of a medium orange. They are delicious fresh, and also great chopped up for winter canning.
Here are the “oranges” that grew on my plant from Russian Ogorod seeds—tasty, juicy, beautiful, with an average weight of 245 g (8.6 oz). The yield in the greenhouse was above average.
Alexander, it’s very beautiful! 👍👍
Do you have a picture of it sliced? 🙈
deliza wrote:
Alexander, it’s very beautiful! 👍👍
Do you have a picture of it sliced? 🙈
I didn’t realize this summer that the photos of sliced tomatoes are the most delicious ones to look at—especially in the winter 😆
During the summer, I was just obsessed with weighing them.
I planted seeds from Poisk. Tasty and productive. I liked it, though I didn’t take any pictures…
Good afternoon! I planted this variety a long time ago. I just bought some random seeds, can’t even remember the brand. Anyway, I absolutely loved it. A deep, rich orange color and a sweetish taste. Unfortunately, I didn’t save any seeds back then. I bought different ones later, but they just weren’t the same Apelsin.
My Apelsins grew outdoors. They were some of the tastiest tomatoes I had. I will definitely plant them again this year.
“My” Apelsin strain is over 10 years old. The original seeds were either SeDeK or Aelita. It’s a gorgeous variety, and I’ve planted it every single year since. It stands out for its great health, high yield, excellent taste, and dense, meaty texture. It’s indeterminate. Plus, it sets fruit perfectly in high heat and never cracks. Fruit weight is 200-400 g (7-14 oz).
I’m planning to plant it next year. Someone treated me to this tomato, and I fell in love instantly 😍 😋
The best advantage of this variety in our climate: it sets fruit perfectly in the heat 👍 As for the taste: it has a nice little tang, just like any real orange 😆 It grew outdoors in open ground, the bush was quite short, up to a meter (3 ft), no taller.
A productive, tall (registered in the catalog as indeterminate) mid-season tomato variety. The fruits are medium-sized, round, and yellow-orange. The flesh is juicy and meaty, sweet (sometimes with a hint of tartness), with thick walls.
My Apelsin was from SeDeK. I didn’t get any massive ones. A pleasant, harmonious sweet-and-sour flavor, and very beautiful.
One of my absolute favorites. I try to plant at least a couple of bushes almost every year.
Pros +++
- It almost never cracks. Everything around can be cracked,
the earth splitting open, lava flowing…but Apelsin will stand there as if nothing happened. - They store for a long time when fully ripe without spoiling.
- The taste is very good.
- It keeps bearing fruit right up until the first frost.
- Beautiful, round, orange fruits the size of a small orange.
Among its relative drawbacks—the yield is only average.
Ripening time: mid-season.
The bushes are vigorous, height is about 1.5 m (5 ft).
Couldn’t find my photos, although I definitely had some.
My Apelsin had an average yield, and a medium plant size up to 2 meters (6.5 ft). The color of the ripe fruit is gorgeous, a bright orange, and the unripe ones are yellow. The taste is a classic tomato flavor—tasty, but not overly sweet. It is fantastic in salads. I planted it in the greenhouse, and also in pots inside the greenhouse, and had an excellent yield that lasted practically until September. It does not fully ripen outdoors here in the Northwest. I’ve been growing it for a couple of years now, and this is the third year I’m saving my own seeds. We’ll see how it goes!
The color of this tomato is exactly like a real orange! Even when overripe, it stores very well. As for the flavor, everything written above is true.
Though, my plant either decided to change its color to a more fashionable anthocyanin 😆, or the skin is just playing tricks with the light.
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This one was grown from my own saved seeds from 8 years ago.
